Which activity for the core psychiatric mental health disciplines is considered most important in national mental health care.
A. The promotion and
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B. The prevention and treatment of mental disorders
C. Recovery and rehabilitation
D. All the above
D. All the above
Each of the phases of mental health care has equal importance when promoting holistic care and quality of life
Select the statement that best describes successful treatment for mental disorders in the United States.
A. Treatment outcomes were most successful when they focused on biological interventions.
B. Treatment for mental disorders has greatly improved in the 21st century and is reflected in the reduction of mental disorders.
C. Statistics for the prevalence of mental disorders in the United States remain static.
D. The combination of medications, interactive therapies, and biologic therapies have been most successful in reducing prevalence of mental disorders.
C. Statistics for the prevalence of mental disorders in the United States remain static.
Despite advances in biological and psychological research and treatment options, statistics reflect the prevalence of mental disorders in the United States has remained static.
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The following identify mental disorders:
A. A 67-year-old woman says that she has not spent one day without crying several hours a day since her husband died last month.
B. A mother says her 15-year-old child spends all his spare hours in his room with the computer and even misses meals.
C. A 19-year-old man begins to hear voices that no one else hears during lectures in his college math course.
D. All of the above
C. A 19-year-old man begins to hear voices that no one else hears during lectures in his college math course.
Hallucinations are false perceptions that have no relationship to reality. (1) Crying is a normal response of mourning the loss of a loved one; and (2) the 15-year-old child's behavior is typical.
The following statements are true about psychiatric mental health nursing
A. Nurses may be certified in their specialty at the entry level or at the advanced practice level
B. The art of PMH nursing is more important than the science of nursing
C. Integrated care is reserved for psychiatrists and is not for nurses
D. None of the above
A. Nurses may be certified in their specialty at the entry level or at the advanced practice level
The ANA standards state that nurses may be certified at the entry level (RN-BSN) or at the advanced level (APRN—MSN or Doctorate).
The art and science of nursing are equally important in psychiatric mental health nursing. Integrated, or holistic, care is within the scope of nursing.
Risk factors for developing physical or mental disorders include:
A. A parent who gets drunk every night after work saying it is relaxing
B. A new school where students either ignore or bully the new students
C. Higher than average intelligence and many satisfying hobbies
D. A large circle of friends who play sports together
A. A parent who gets drunk every night after work saying it is relaxing
and
B. A new school where students either ignore or bully the new students
Stressful environmental and socio-cultural factors, such as bullying, can impact a person's feeling of self-worth. Absence of a caring parent, dysfunctional family functions, and abusive behavior place the person at risk for anxiety or depression.
Your friend has just been laid off from his job. Which of the following responses on your part would most likely contribute to enhanced resilience?
1. Using your connections to set up an interview with your employer
2. Connecting him with a friend of the family who owns his own business
3. Supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and completing multiple interviews
4. Helping him to understand that the layoff resulted from troubles in the economy and is
not his fault
3. Supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and completing multiple interviews
Rationale: Resilience develops from the process of resolving distress through adaptive coping. It
is enhanced when a person experiences success as a result of his own efforts, which gives the
person an increased sense of control or mastery over stressful events. This is illustrated in the
choice involving helping your friend to obtain and succeed in interviewing for a replacement job.
In the other choices, you are helping the person deal with his situation and/or find a replacement
job but not in a manner that leads him to experience success via his own efforts. As a result,
these approaches do not provide your friend with an opportunity to experience a sense of mastery
over stress, so they are less likely to contribute to increased resiliency.
Which of the following situations best supports the stress-diathesis model of mental illness
development?
1. The rate of suicide increases during times of national disaster and despair.
2. Four of five siblings in the Jones family develop bipolar disorder by the age of 30.
3. A man with no prior mental health problems experiences sadness after his divorce.
4. A man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains free of mental illness.
4. A man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains free of mental illness.
Rationale: The stress-diathesis theory states that some persons are born with a biological
predisposition to mental illness, but that mental illness does not necessarily develop unless those
susceptible persons are exposed to stressors which trigger the illness. Thus for two persons with
the same genetic profile, one might develop a mental illness due to stressful life experiences,
whereas his counterpart, despite having the same genetic makeup, has a different life experience
and fails to develop the illness. This scenario is best demonstrated in the case of the man who
develops schizophrenia, while his identical twin, with the same genetic makeup, remains free of the disorder. The remaining choices do not necessarily involve a combination of a common biological predisposition and exposure to a stressor working together to trigger a mental disorder. [Show Less]